The topic of censorship is really heating up after Google, YouTube, Spotify, Apple and Facebook prevented the conservative website Infowars from being accessed by their platforms in a concerted effort to block free speech by a source they don’t like.

For comic lovers who want to stay up close with their favourite characters, the travel website Booking.com recommends eight unique stays that celebrate some of the most iconic characters we have all grown to know and love.

Pipit Aneaknithi, Kasikornbank president, revealed that on July 25, KBank found that 3,000 names of corporate customers using KBank’s website for the letter of guarantee service might have been leaked.

Kasikorn Bank and Krung Thai Bank said they had detected theft of customer information through hacking at their websites, adding that immediate actions were taken to close the loophole and the level of data surveillance and protection have been raised.

Police arrested about 15,000 punters and 600 bookies in their operation to suppress football gambling before and during the Fifa World Cup tournament, and had also contacted other authorities to close 200 soccer-betting websites, said deputy National Police Chief Chalermkiat Srivorakhan on Tuesday.

A US film crew has already arrived in Chiang Rai, and two American producers are plotting a movie project about the 12 young Mu Pa Academy footballers and their assistant coach who were trapped in the cave for more than two weeks, according to an Australian news website.